Live Pterodactyl April Fool’s Joke?
A press release dated March 30, 2013 (Saturday) would be expected to be noticed on Monday, April 1, 2013. With a title of “Modern Pterodactyls and Religion,” it looks like it may be an April Fool’s...
View ArticleBeetle Banquet?
According to a United Nation report, we would be better off eating insects, at least for part of our diet. The main point is that it could reduce world hunger and pollution, assuming we would use less...
View ArticleHollywood Pterodactyls, for Real?
In a Jurassic Park film, we expect to see dinosaurs and pterodactyls alive, but a few miles east of Hollywood? The two eyewitnesses did not actually use the word “dinosaur” or “pterodactyl,” but one of...
View ArticleBenefits of Piano Lessons for Kids
New studies on brain activities demonstrate that musicians are mentally highly developed. Those who concentrate on music performance are more alert and have more desire to learn in general. That kind...
View ArticleNew Word for the old Marriage
A nonfiction author in Long Beach, California, has introduced a new word for the husband-wife relationship: “adahmeve” (pronounced ah-‘dahm-eev). Jonathan Whitcomb explains that recent government...
View ArticleBioluminescent Pterosaur and Humboldt Squid
The living-pterosaur expert Jonathan Whitcomb has compared the bioluminescence of a large squid to the mysterious Marfa Lights of Texas. Nobody doubts that the Humboldt squid is real, a glowing...
View ArticleDinosaurs and Blind Dates
For several generations, many scientists in Western countries have assumed that all dinosaurs became extinct by many millions of years ago. Some non-scientists have assumed the ancient dates were...
View ArticleHow Did Bobby Fischer do it?
What was the greatest chess accomplishment of Robert J. Fischer? Not winning the World Chess Championship in 1972, according to some authorities, becoming the first American to hold that title. It was...
View ArticleBenefits of Concentrating on Chess
By Jonathan Whitcomb, chess coach in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah It’s no secret that focusing on a game of chess is mental exercise, although deeply competitive players rarely think about that during...
View ArticleModern Pteranodon in a Photo
By Jonathan D. Whitcomb, nonfiction-cryptozoology author I’ve known about this photograph for a long time. This may be what I saw in a book in a public library in Pasadena, California, in the 1960’s,...
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